Snoqualmie Lake, Taylor River - Otter Falls — Saturday, May. 23, 1998

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

Left the car at the trailhead at Taylor River. To get there hang left at the bifurcation of the gravel road right past the huge parking lot for the Middle Fork of Snoqualmie trail. The first few miles follow an old logging road along Taylor River. A bit rocky in spots but wide and hardly slopping at all. Things change a bit when you get to where the trail splits into the one to Snoqualmie Lake to the left and Nordrum Lake to the right. There are a few downed trees and the higher you go the more you have to share the trail with cheerful little and not-so-little creeks running down the slope. What with the washouts and the bushes we ended up loosing the trail a couple of times but found our way quickly again. With just a day pack it was easy enough but I would not recommend the upper part of the trail for kids. Couple of nice waterfalls on the way, some beatiful old growth higher up. The lake is still 3/4 covered with ice and there is snow on the trail leading past the lake to Lake Dorothy. All in all a great hike and reaching the lake weas well worth the effort even though we got thoroughly soaked from the rain.